From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:44:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150612184450.GG19199@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3287607.HcH18TyfSu@crushinator>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:36:31PM -0400, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> On Friday, 12 June 2015, at 7:34 pm, Peter Todd wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:22:36PM -0400, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> > > Why should miners only be able to vote for "double the limit" or "halve" the limit? If you're going to use bits, I think you need to use two bits:
> > >
> > > 0 0 = no preference ("wildcard" vote)
> > > 0 1 = vote for the limit to remain the same
> > > 1 0 = vote for the limit to be halved
> > > 1 1 = vote for the limit to be doubled
> > >
> > > User transactions would follow the same usage. In particular, a user vote of "0 0" (no preference) could be included in a block casting any vote, but a block voting "0 0" (no preference) could only contain transactions voting "0 0" as well.
> >
> > Sounds like a good encoding to me. Taking the median of the three
> > options, and throwing away "don't care" votes entirely, makes sense.
>
> I hope you mean the *plurality* of the three options after throwing away the "don't cares," not the *median*.
Median ensures that voting "no change" is meaningful. If "double" + "no
change" = 66%-1, you'd expect the result to be "no change", not "halve""
With a plurality vote you'd end up with a halving that was supported by
a minority.
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-12 18:11 [Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:20 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-12 18:26 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:36 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:56 ` Jannes Faber
[not found] ` <CABr1YTfowMqgDZoWhDXiM0Bd3dwhVo6++FOvLntGc2HkApEbGw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-12 20:04 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-12 23:01 ` Vincent Truong
2015-06-12 23:11 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-06-12 23:23 ` Aaron Gustafson
2015-06-12 18:22 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:34 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:36 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:39 ` Benjamin
2015-06-12 18:47 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:44 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-06-12 18:52 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:54 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:56 ` Aaron Gustafson
2015-06-13 22:20 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-06-13 22:24 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 4:55 ` Chun Wang
2015-06-14 4:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 5:08 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 5:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 5:20 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 5:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 10:06 ` Mats Henricson
2015-06-14 10:34 ` Benjamin
2015-06-14 15:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 21:59 ` odinn
2015-06-14 20:10 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 14:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 22:26 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-15 3:59 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 4:16 ` Stephen
2015-06-14 4:50 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 4:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 7:19 ` Ashley Holman
2015-06-13 23:57 Raystonn
2015-06-14 4:28 ` odinn
2015-06-14 5:46 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-14 21:38 ` odinn
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